In order to establish an equitable and uniform procedure for dealing with personnel matters, to attract to municipal service the best and most competent persons available, to assure that appoint-ments and promotions of employees will be based on merit and fitness as determined by competitive tests, and to provide a reasonable degree of security for qualified employees, a personnel system is adopted by the provisions of this article.
('66 Code, § 2-4.101) (Ord. 396-A, passed 7-8-57)